Give your car the protection it deserves now with on-the-spot cover note and renewal with free towing and roadside help to get you back on the road in no time!

Etiqa Comprehensive Private Car Takaful Cheras

You’ll never know what’s at the next turning, so have complete peace of mind on the road with 24-hour emergency towing for accidents and fast motor claims.

HSBC Comprehensive Car Insurance Cheras

Renew your motor insurance fast with HSBC

Make sure your vehicle is insured against any loss or damage, including personal accident protection for both the driver and passengers.

Hong Leong Comprehensive Motor Insurance Cheras

Get yourself a motor insurance that’ll provide professional 24-hour services for free minor roadside repairs and towing. Have instant access to trusted mechanics all over Malaysia!

Kurnia Comprehensive Motor Insurance Cheras

You rely on your car to take you everywhere, so rely on Kurnia to give it the protection it deserves. Have the benefit of 24-hour roadside assistance for breakdown and accidents.

Liberty Comprehensive AutoStar Cheras

Give your car 5-star protection! Renew your car insurance online at your comfort and enjoy full coverage for liability against third party claim as well as damage to your own vehicle.

Lonpac Comprehensive Private Vehicle Insurance Cheras

24-hour emergency assistance when your car breaks down and needs repair. Lonpac also offers free towing service, claims for car accidents, and third party compensation.

MAA Takaful Comprehensive Motor Coverage Cheras

A Takaful plan that will provide your car with comprehensive coverage! Have complete peace of mind with coverage for both your car and injury to other motorists.

MPI Generali Comprehensive Private Car Insurance Cheras

Reckless drivers are common on the road and that is why your precious car needs all the protection it could get. Get compensated against damage of your own car, third party liability and car theft with MPI General insurance !

A comprehensive motor insurance policy that protects your car not only in Malaysia, but also if you decide to go roadtripping to Thailand or West Kalimantan!

Pacific Comprehensive Motor Insurance

Whether you own a car or motorbike, get it insured against third party liabilities, fire damage and theft, and most importantly, claim for any damage caused by road accidents.

Pacific and Orient Comprehensive Motor Insurance

Have the assurance of a variety of coverage types such as loss or damage to own vehicle arising from lightning, accidents, fire, and add-on windscreen protection.

Progressive Comprehensive Motor Insurance

A complete car insurance plan that not only protects your wheels for any loss or damage, but also other people on the road from minor or fatal injuries!

QBE Private Car Comprehensive Insurance

Get more coverage and benefits for your private car or van with a full-on insurance plan that protects your ride against accidents, fire damage, theft, and injury to other people.

RHB Comprehensive Private Car Insurance

Protect yourself in the event of a stolen car or in need of replacement parts because of an accident. An insurance plan that takes care of third party victims as well.

Takaful IKHLAS Comprehensive Commercial Vehicle Insurance

Whether you run a delivery service or you need a van to pick up inventory, it’s important to have your vehicle insured. Avoid business loss with Takaful Ikhlas.

Takaful IKHLAS Comprehensive Private Car

Get the best Shariah compliant insurance for your car. Have the surety of protection from injury or death to third parties, plus damage caused by accident or fire to your car.

Takaful Malaysia Comprehensive myMotor

Get full indemnity for damages caused to your car because of an accident, fire, and even when you wake up in the morning and find out that your car has been stolen!

Tokio Marine Comprehensive Motor Insurance

Have unlimited protection for injuries or death caused to third parties, including high coverage limit for loss or damage to your own car an other people’s property.

Zurich Comprehensive Motor Insurance

Road-tripping around the country? Not to worry, have the convenience for 24-hour roadside breakdown assistance for both Peninsular and East Malaysia.

What You Need To Know About Car Insurance

The 3 Types of Car Insurance

There are three types of motor insurance available in the Malaysian market, namely:

1. Third Party Cover

Imagine this: It was a rainy night, and you decide to drive your car home after a night of drinking. Your car skids at a junction and hits a pedestrian. By luck, you escaped unscathed – but to your worst fears, the pedestrian had suffered a few broken limbs – ouch!

To avoid forking out an exorbitant amount of money to pay for his or her hospital bills, you need at least a third party car insurance – It is a policy that protects you against claims for bodily injuries or even deaths caused to other persons (third party), including any loss or damage to their vehicle or property. This also means that you cannot claim for any damages on your own person or vehicle, with it being the cheapest and most minimal policy you would need to enable you to drive legally.

2. Third Party Fire and Theft Cover

Like a third party insurance policy, this policy covers you against claims from third parties from bodily injury, death, and loss or damage to their property. Speeding in a neighbourhood and crashed into a house? You policy might pay for a portion of the repairs.

Added to that, you will be able to claim compensation for loss or damaged caused by fire related incidents and car theft – so if you fear waking up one day with a missing car from your driveway, you can claim with a fire and theft insurance plan.

3. Comprehensive Cover

This car insurance policy covers all of the above, but the major reason to buy comprehensive is the protection given to your OWN car! In addition to third party protection and fire and theft coverage for you own car, you will get cover for any accidental loss or damage inflicted to your vehicle due to an accident.

It is probably a good idea to buy yourself a comprehensive car insurance plan if you own a relatively expensive car – a car that has a market value of more than RM30,000 would fit just nicely in this category.

What Your Car Insurance Will Not Normally Cover

If you have read the terms and conditions for all three policies carefully, provided that you actually understood everything, you will realise that some incidents are not covered, even though they occur fairly frequently, for example – you would expect your car insurance to cover your death in the event of a serious accident…but does it really?

To be clear, that’s what a motor personal accident insurance is for, something you should also sign-up for when taking up a car insurance plan.

1. Your own death or bodily injury because of a motor accident

You would expect that your own death or at least physical injury to be coverage for a modest amount of money; well, stranger things have happened. Your personal accident insurance or medical insurance might have you covered, but not a car insurance plan. Nope, not even the comprehensive cover – that means no hospitalisation allowance or coverage for funeral expenses.

2. Your liability against claims from your passengers

A passenger who gets hurt because of a car accident will usually have an easier case compared to the person behind the wheel – if the accident involves two vehicles, one of the drivers will most likely be found negligent and liable for the physical injury to the passenger.

However, you will be able to pay additional premium on your motor insurance to include Passenger Liability Extension Cover, in the event that your passengers choose to sue you.

Pimping out your brand new Honda City with custom spinning rims, genuine leather seats, and an expensive (but totally unnecessary) sound system might earn you brownie points with your friends and colleagues, but you may also be drawing a lot of unwanted attention from less agreeable people i.e. car thieves. Make sure in addition to your lavish upgrades, you install additional car security features, such as a powerful GPS tracking system!

Like everything else – cars aren’t built to last. As vehicle parts wear out with time (excluding parts made out of glass e.g. windshield), the value of your car depreciates along with them – and honestly, a car’s value drops the moment it leaves the showroom.

You’ll probably lose up to 40% of its initial value 5 years down the road – literally! If you’re planning to insure a car that is pushing 15 years of age, good luck finding an insurer that’ll take you on.

These unfortunate events, along with earthquakes and hurricanes are commonly referred to as natural disasters or acts of God, and are not covered in standard car insurance policies. On the other hand, you may pay higher premiums to extend your policy to cover flood, landslide, landslip including adequate cover for your passengers.

As you’ve read, insurance companies will allow you to add-on optional benefits to your car insurance policy to be insured for all five exclusions that we’ve mentioned above, including coverage for windscreen repairs and replacement – but of course, you will have to pay a higher premium. So you’d now probably want to know what goes into calculating your premiums?

Your Motor Premium Calculation

Motor insurance premium is calculated according to the Motor tariff set out by Persatuan Insurans Am Malaysia ( PIAM). All insurance companies are required to use the same pricing schedule. This prices are determined by a few factors such as coverage type, use of vehicle, car engine size i.e. cubic capacity, age of vehicle, maximum sum insured, extended coverage and number of registered drivers. However, this is all set to change in 2016, when the current tiered system will be replaced with a new risk based price structure, an effort by Bank Negara Malaysia to deregulate the car insurance industry.

Avoid Under-Insurance

Lastly, it is very important that you insure your vehicle appropriately according to its current value, whether its at the purchase price for a new car, or the current market value for one that is used. This is to avoid under-insurance that will result in only partial compensations on claims, or worse still over-insurance, where you simply waste money to insure a car above its market value, when the maximum you can claim is at the market value – so why would you want to do that?